Crockett was the fifth of nine children and the fifth son born to John and Rebecca Hawkins Crockett. The Crockett's were a self-sufficient, independent family. Crockett was born August 17, 1786 in a small cabin on the banks of the Nolichucky River, near the mouth of Limestone Creek in Tennessee. Growing up Davy lived a rough childhood as his dad failed at being a farmer, a mill operator, and storekeeper. Their Crockett family then fell in debt and Davy was forced to work. His father put him at work driving cattle to Virginia when he was 12 years old.

When the summer came that year Davy was enrolled in school, he spent 5 day in school then got in a fight with one of the school boys and he played hooky for several weeks later. Later on his father found out about his hooky playing and Davy got scared and ran away to escape punishment by father. This "strategic withdrawal," as Crockett called it, lasted 21/2 years while he worked as a wagoner and day laborer and at odd jobs to support himself.

By 1805, when Davy was at the tender age of twenty, Davy had realized that he wanted to move on in life and start a family of his own. Davy Crockett was licensed to marry Margaret Elder in 1805, but this license was never used. However, he was married to Polly Finlay in 1806, just after his twentieth birthday. They lived for the next few years in a small cabin near the Crockett family, where their two sons, John Wesley and William, were born.

Davy began his military career in September of 1815, when he enlisted in the militia as a scout under Major Gibson in Winchester, Tennessee, to avenge an Indian attack on Fort Mimms, Alabama. On November 3, under Andrew Jackson, Crockett participated in the retributive massacre of the Indian town of Tallussahatchee. He returned home when his ninety-day enlistment for the Creek Indian War expired on the day before Christmas. He then re-enlisted on September 28, 1814, as a third sergeant in Capt. John Cowan's company. He arrived on November 7, the day after Jackson took Pensacola, and spent his time trying to ferret out the British-trained Indians from the Florida swamps. After his discharge in 1815 as a fourth sergeant Crockett arrived home and found himself again a father. Polly died the summer after Margaret's birth his third child.

While working on the farm the son of one of Davy's employer conducted a school near by that for six months, Davy went four days a week and also worked. Except for the four days he had attended school when he was twelve, this was all the schooling Davy ever had. Over the next few years he continued to work for his fathers friends and hunt on the side to provide food

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